Getting started with next-gen projects

Oct 17, 2018

If you use Jira Software Cloud, check out this article to learn about creating a next-gen Scrum or Kanban project. Next-gen projects contain all the agile essentials and are built to adapt to your way of working.

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Enable and disable features

The best part about next-gen Jira Software projects is the ability to enable and disable features, allowing you to scale your project as your team grows, and tailor your project to your team’s changing needs. For example, if you’re a small team that only needs a board, you can turn off Sprints and Backlog. Or if you’re a growing team that needs more power, you can turn on Estimations and Reports.

To enable and disable features:

Navigate to your next-gen project.

Select Project settings in the project menu on the left.

Select Features.

We’ll be adding more features in the future, so keep an eye out!

Learn more

Like what you see? Dive into more advanced features available in next-gen projects:

Need to track different types of work? Learn more about setting up custom issue types and custom fields at Managing next-gen projects.

I've been able to create stories and tasks within epics by using the Add child issue, but how do I assign an epic to a story or task I created in the backlog? Or how do I change epic of an issue? The left pane with Epics is not there now.

This bulk operation allows you to move multiple issues at the same time. The issues you're moving need to be mapped to both a project and an issue type, and in doing this, you may need to also map the status and fields of the issues. Subtasks need to be mapped, too.

Perform a search with the required filters to produce a list of issues.

Click more(•••)> Bulk Change all<n>issues.

Select the issues you'd like to perform the bulk operation on, and click Next.

Select Move Issues, and click Next.

Enter the requested information for the issues you're moving.

Review all the changes and click Confirm.

We’ve made setting up a next-gen project super easy so what you can do is create a next-gen project, configure it and then bulk move issues from an existing Classic project and into your new next-gen project. I’d recommend only doing this as and when your team is ready to make the move, so perhaps try our a fresh project before doing a bulk move.

What you are seeing is the template under its former beta name “agility”. If you go in and create an agility project, that’s the new project experience. There will be no difference to what you get with next-gen project templates other than the name and what’s enabled or disabled initially in project settings.

The new project experience is designed to be completely flexible so you are not locked into any particular template’s initial settings. A simple example is perhaps to go to Project settings -> Features, and you’ll see what I mean. You’ll see a bunch of toggles to easily to enable/disable sprints, estimation, backlogs etc in just a single click. This lets you move flexibly between kanban or scrum, or mix and match to your specific needs.

The reason you are seeing a difference to my screenshots in the article is that your Jira site happens to be at the tail of our rollout to the new template names and project create flows, but those updates will be catching up and rolling out to your Jira site shortly.

At this stage we've only enabled the essentials for scrum - sprint burnup and velocity - but I can assure you that we won't stop at that and that there will be more reports coming.

To give you an idea of what we're thinking for those not running sprints, based on a lot of customer feedback and interviews, many would like to see cycle times (something like our Control chart on Classic projects). Please write back if you have other reports in mind.

The 'Next Gen Project' option in the dropdown is simply not there - no dropdown just a single click button. Is that because it hasn't yet propagated to all instances? Come on guys, you need to get on the same page with your releases. If the rest of us did a release like this we would be caned. Is a $242mil loss just too small or something? Pick up your game. You may think you are too big to fail now ... ah, but look, here comes Microsoft.

@Peer Elandwe're happy to hear you're interested in the new Jira Cloud experience. The Server team is investigating & learning from customer feedback at the moment to balance which elements would be most valuable in addition to performance, administrative control, & team productivity!

@Didac Time tracking is not available yet although we're really just getting started with the next gen projects and there's a lot more coming soon to them. Although I can't comment on when I know time tracking is high up on the list of features to add.

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